Improvement in water-elevators



UNITED STATEsv PATENT OEEIcE.

JAMEs IEAMILTON, 0E coNNEesvILLE, INDIANA, AssIGNoE, To nIMsELE, T. E. HAMILTON, c. H. HAMILTON, e. w. ELEMING, AND WILLIAM E. LAM- BERT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATR-ELEVATORS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,887, dated July 30, 1872.

I, J AMES J vHAMILTON of Oonnersville, Fayette county, `State of diana, have in vented a certain new and useful Pumping Attachment to Locomotives, of which the following is a specilication:

Nature and Objects of the Intention.

` water-stations of railroads, which are liable to freeze up. My invention further consists in the provision, upon the shaft of the combined engine and pump of a crank and wrist for the attachment of the rod of a lever-pump securedl in a cistern at a water-station for the purpose of enabling the combined engine to pump from deeper `water-levels than is possible by-suctioni7 Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a locomotive with my combined engine and pump attached. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of a portion of the locomotive attached to a pump permanently secured in a well or cistern at 'the side of a railroad track. l

General Description.

A is the body of the locomotive, and `B a special frame for supporting my combined en` gine andl pump. Thecombined engine and pump is composed of steam-cylinder'O, pump D, crank-shaft E, with suitable slides and rod- .connectiona The engine selected for illustration is Of the oscillating description; but any other varietymay be adopted. The engine is connected, by suitable passages in the trunnions, with the steam-space and chimney of the locomotive for necessary supply and exhaust of steam, respectively. The pump has flexible hose F attached to it, to be thrown into a well Yor cistern when the locomotive is standing, tok act as a suction in supplying the tender with water from the cistern of a waterstation. A flexible hose, Gr, is also attached to the discharge-chambenof the pump, which is kept in constant communication with the tender. In some cases the cistern of the water-station, owin g to the depth of the water, or for other reasons, must necessarily be supplied with a permanent pump, H, whose discharge-pipe I 'is adapted to discharge the water by gravity, through suitable hose, into the tender. Connection is made to my combined engine and pump from this cistern-pump by means of the provision of a crank and wrist, J K, or shaft E, on which the permanent rod Lof the pump may be coupled when the locomotive is at rest. rllhe rotation of the shaft E gives motion to the pump and elevates the water to the discharge I, from whence it runs into the tender, as before stated.

Claims.

tion with a pump inthe cistern of a water-V station, as and for tliepurpose specified.

l In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand. l

J. J. HAMILTON. Witnesses:

FRANK MILLWARD,

J. L. WARTMANN. 

